Troy participates in mutual aid in her so-called Brooklyn neighborhood. This work involves free fridges, bulk food distribution, and free stores among other activities that rally around the slogan "solidarity, not charity." Troy's community organizing and choreographic work spring from her dance lineage of mentors Sidra Bell, Margie Gillis, Gallim Dance, Punchdrunk, Susan Misner, and Alexandra Wells; her study of adrienne maree brown, Octavia Butler, and Dean Spade; and listening/responding to what her community needs. She's also a team member on The Dance Union Podcast.
Emergent Improvisation is intentional time and space to move in community with others. Troy Ogilvie and Omar Zubair offer frameworks and living sound environments to nourish the creative spirit. These frameworks often attempt to put into practice elements from adrienne maree brown’s “Emergent Strategy,” particularly ‘fractals’, ‘adaptation’, ‘nonlinear/iterative’, ‘resilience’, ‘interdependence’, and ‘creating more possibilities.’
Troy approaches the practice through an ever-expanding aesthetic lens originally shaped by her work with Sidra Bell, Punchdrunk, Gallim Dance, Susan Misner, and Margie Gillis, prioritizing the curious, playful, weird, joyful, quiet, messy, awkward, and exactly-what-they-are moments/movements that emerge during class; allowing space for digestion, observation, and integration.
Omar's improvisational sound collage acts as a mycelial web connecting the space—pulsing with and responding to the eventscapes that emerge and develop—providing an infrastructure for those present to find and stay in their power while also wandering into the wilderness of their own beings.
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